I don't know about any mccoy or if he is lying, etc, all I know is that
one needs to be some mother of an asshole to deem an amp one has never
heard as "****ty" sounding.

I think that descriptive was of a class of amps, not of any given
example of that class. Although I agree in principle with what you say.


The brute fact of the matter is that flea-power amps (whether SET or
otherwise) have severe limitations such that under most normal field
conditions they would almost have to sound '****ty'. SET then brings
with it its own addiitonal set of problems that restrict "non-****ty"
behavior even more.

There are circus performers who can suspend a dozen or more spinning
china plates on the top of thin sticks. As long as he works hard at it,
the plates will stay in place. But that would be a rather ****ty way to
store them permanently.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA